BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c9e454852e9d210f545119482248a265253 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict DESCRIPTION:
How
to Lose the Information War:
Join us for a conversation with Nina Jankowicz Ellen Nakashima, Washington
Post National Security Reporter (Moderator) <
span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"> T he Russian influence campaigns that took the US by surprise in 2016 have be en going on for decades in Central and Eastern Europe--and are now amplifie d by social media and digital technologies that allow information to spread faster, farther, and with more precision. In How to Lose the Informati on War, Jankowicz dissects Russian operative-run campaigns, and examin es the motivations behind the attacks and how governments should respond, d rawing lessons learned from the responses of the US, Estonia, Georgia, Pola nd, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. < /span> Nina Jankowicz studies the int ersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. Jankow icz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. Her writing h as been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, BuzzFeed News, and Wilson Quarterly. She is a frequent com mentator on disinformation and Russian and Eastern European affairs, and ha s been interviewed by CNN's Christiane Amanpour and PBS's Judy Woodruff. Pr ior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Jankowicz managed democracy assistan ce programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She received her MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East E uropean Studies from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, and her BA fro m Bryn Mawr. | @wiczipedia Ellen Nakash ima (Moderator) is a national security reporter for The Washington Post. She focuses on intelligence and cyber operations, including the US g overnment’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. She and her colleagues broke stories about a whistleblower compla int over President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine that led to the president’ s impeachment this year. In 2018, Nakashima was part of a team that won a P ulitzer Prize for reporting on the Russia investigation, and in 2014, she w as part of another team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for c overage of NSA surveillance programs. She served as Southeast Asia co-burea u chief from 2002-2006, and has covered the White House and Virginia state politics. She joined The Post in 1995. | @nakashimae
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